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The archival collections listed here belong to the Rebok Memorial Library, as part of its Special Collections. These Manuscript Collections may include correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, artifacts, and other personal records typically donated to the Special Collections by individuals or entities.
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This collection contains a typed manuscript, titled “Some Personal Sketches”, created by Harvey Edson Rogers in the late 1930s and early 1940s; its contents include stories and documentation of the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, based on interviews with principal people as well as his own experiences.
View and download finding aidThis collection contains a photo album, testimonials book, autograph album, and eighteen diaries spanning 1875-1916.
View and download finding aidThis collection contains correspondence, diaries, photographs and photo albums, slides, cloth charts, pamphlets, sermon and article notes, and books created or collected by Frederick C. Gilbert.
View and download finding aidThis collection contains correspondence and other documents compiled or created by Dean Jennings (1934- ). The collection pertains to the theological debate and administrative issues related to the work of Desmond Ford (1929-2019), especially after the meetings held at Glacier View Ranch in 1980.
View and download finding aidThis collection contains 191 photographs of varying sizes, depicting scenes in the United States, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, documenting the lives of Samuel, Ella, and Gladys Frost, as well as people they knew and served with in those places. Most of the photographs are from the 1920s and 1930s.
View and download finding aidThis collection contains two albums each measuring 6x8 and one scrapbook measuring 10x13 and featuring over 200 photographs and a variety of letters and postcards, documenting part of the life of Ethel Amelia Roop (1895-1994), educator, Church of the Brethren missionary, and Battle-Creek-Sanitarium-trained nurse.
View and download finding aidThis collection contains documents, notes, a handmade hymnal, pamphlets, and books with marginalia once owned by J. Wayne McFarland (1913-2011), Seventh-day Adventist physician, administrator, editor, and educator, who was one of the co-creators of the Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking.
View and download finding aidThis collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other documents related to the life and career of Lowell Reed Rasmussen (1907-1998), who was a Seventh-day Adventist educator and administrator. Some of the materials are related to his work with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, an accrediting commission based in the western United States.
View and download finding aidThis collection contains photographs related to Seventh-day Adventist mission work in China in Canton and Shanghai between 1909 and 1921. Many of the photographs are related to a single family, the Harlows, who were Seventh-day Adventist missionaries in China during that period.
View and download finding aidThis collection contains a photo album titled “La Obra Adventista Pro-Indígena en el Perú” (“The Pro-Indigenous Adventist Work in Peru”). The images in the album capture work done by Seventh-day Adventists among and with indigenous peoples surrounding Lake Titicaca (including the Quechua and the Aymara peoples) in the late 1920s. This era saw the continued establishment of Seventh-day Adventist mission stations throughout South America as well as the growth of the Indigenismo political movement in Peru. The collection also contains a comb-bound printing of images of and transcription of a diary kept first by Amalie (Griehl) James in 1896-1902 (non-daily) and then by her daughter, Arabella (James) Moore in 1915 and 1916. These pages are accompanied by images drawn from a variety of sources.
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